Berg Celebrates OMPO Victory

By /
The Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization‘s will include a $1 million study for alternate access roads to the Waianae Coast despite objections from the Hawaii Department of Transportation.

Honolulu City Council member Tom Berg pushed for an amendment to keep the study in, and got enough votes at a meeting Tuesday to make that happen. At Honolulu Hale a few hours later, he thanked colleague Nestor Garcia for his help, and was clearly in a happy mood.

Today, he sent out a newsletter celebrating the victory with video from the meeting, held at the Capitol. The video includes testimony from three Leeward Oahu residents imploring OMPO to keep the study alive.

Watch it here:

What it means to support Civil Beat.

Supporting Civil Beat means you’re investing in a newsroom that can devote months to investigate corruption. It means we can cover vulnerable, overlooked communities because those stories matter. And, it means we serve you. And only you.

Donate today and help sustain the kind of journalism Hawaiʻi cannot afford to lose.

Donate

About the Author